Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Reuters / Mario Anzuoni Pop Music’s Version of Life Doesn’t Exist Anymore
What good are songs about touch and sweat during a pandemic?
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The Atlantic How to Solve the Fixed-Costs Crisis
If the government is asking businesses to shut down, it should compensate them for the fixed costs they incur while they’re closed.
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Chris O'Meara / AP Four Theories for Why People Are Still Out Partying
Our moral instincts don’t match this crisis.
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FPG / Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The … The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism
Pandemics affect men and women differently.
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Yale Joel / The LIFE Picture Collection / … The Stockpile of Food in My Garage
As I hunker down at home with my family amid a global pandemic, I have a new appreciation for a strange religious tradition.
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travelview / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Pandemic Could Change How Americans View Government
Congress’s push to temporarily expand the social safety net may have the country asking one big question: Why only now?
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Listen: ‘Dear Therapist’ on Staying Sane
Lori Gottlieb of “Dear Therapist” talks us through how to deal with the coronavirus crisis.
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The Atlantic The Healthiest Way to Sweat Out a Pandemic
As gyms close their doors, people are buying up dumbbells like toilet paper.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic Should You Take Advil for COVID-19?
It’s a surprisingly tricky question.
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Win McNamee / Getty Photos: The Quiet Emptiness of a World Under Coronavirus
Images of the eerie stillness of public spaces, emptied of the crowds they were built for
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Leah Mills / Reuters The ‘Chinese Virus’ Is a Test. Don’t Fail It.
You should be more offended by Trump’s incompetence than by his attempt to racialize the pandemic.
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Listen: This Is as Real as It Gets
An infectious-disease doctor discusses how hospitals are preparing for the coming surge of patients.
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Alec Soth / Magnum Rural America Isn’t Ready for a Pandemic
In West Virginia, the health infrastructure—one required for a response to the coronavirus—has been hollowed out.
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The Atlantic We Were Warned
When the inevitable inquiry into the government's response to COVID-19 happens, it will conclude that signs of a coming crisis were everywhere.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty A Doctor Warns of the ‘Biggest Risk’ We Face Right Now
Can we keep health-care workers healthy enough to provide care?
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Marco Di Lauro / Getty Close the Churches
State and local shutdown orders shouldn’t exempt religious gatherings, and those communities should comply.
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FaiPloypilin / Shutterstock The Doctor Who Had to Innovate or Else
An anesthesiologist’s exemplary performance during a bygone epidemic is an inspiration for ours.
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Pogonici / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The American Presidency Wasn’t Built for Men This Old
Should the country have an upper-limit age restriction on those seeking its highest office?
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Mark Reinstein / MediaPunch / IPX The Long Arc of Joe Biden
How did he get here?
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Martin Chan / South China Morning Post via … A Glimpse of the Coronavirus’s Possible Legacy
The imprint SARS has left on Hong Kong speaks to the legacy COVID-19 may well leave on much of the world.
